Game-Play Language and Game-Play Intelligence – Wording, Planning, and Enacting Action Plans in Team Sports

Game Intelligence in Team Sports

We set up a game theoretic framework to analyze a wide range of situations from team sports. A fundamental idea is the concept of potential; the probability of the offense scoring the next goal minus the probability that the next goal is made by the defense. We develop categorical as well as continuous models, and obtain optimal strategies for both offense and defense. A main result is that the...

How to Play a Language Game

Aumann (1990) proposes a signaling game of particular interest to natural language pragmatics; it is a variant of a “stag hunt” game. In a stag hunt game, there is a conflict between cooperation—which yields a relatively high payoff for both participants—and safety, wherein in a player receives an guaranteed, low-risk payoff. The strategic normal form of Aumann’s version of the game is shown in...

Planning to Guide Opening and Middle Game Play in Shogi

"Gamic Realism": Player, Perception and Action in Video Game Play

This paper explores a phenomenological approach to the video game medium, in order to argue that realism in video games is dependent on the player’s embodied experience of play as opposed to mimetic representation. My paper discusses the relation of the player, and specifically the player’s body, to the idea of realism in video games. Chris Crawford wrote in 1982 that “games represent a subset ...

Decentralized Game Play

In our project we address the problem of how to implement a stateful multi-player game while minimizing trust in third-parties. By “stateful” we mean that there is some meaningful state that persists between separate interactions, as opposed to each interaction being selfcontained, as in chess, tic-tac-toe, etc. A typical example of a stateful game is poker, since each hand affects the money ba...